Disease investigators try to keep the world safe from bird flu
Dr. Luch chastised herself for not having thought to test the boy the day before, when she could have saved him if she had treated him for the flu.But the alarm it raised and the urgent activity that followed were a testament to the strength of Cambodia's disease monitoring system and its importance to the global biosurveillance system.It is the fruit of years of international and local investments, training and public education. It shows how frontline work in low-income countries is increasingly vital to a global system aimed at detecting zoonotic diseases – pathogens that jump from animals to humans, as Covid-19 did. The goal is to identify and contain them, buying time to produce enough vaccines or drugs to treat them, or to embark on a frantic mission to develop something new.A g...










